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 Hello, Jack Stein, I'd like you to meet my friend, Harvey...
MP>> Then again, there may be more processing going on. 
 JS> I guess, but how long does it take to open and close a file?  
Several files, no problem. <2xx  files, no problem. Several thousand files, 
there's a problem. DOS was not designed to handle that kind of volume.
 JS> Me too, but I've never done anything else on a message base, so 
 JS> my opinion isn't worth a lot for sure.
Try it. Write a program that creates 5,000 files numbered sequentially. Then 
write a program that does nothing but open and close them -in- -order-. I did 
this once to test a netmail sort-by-date-and-renumber utility, 4000 files, 
was -stunned- at how long it took, -far- longer than 10x the time it took to 
do 400 files.
:-)
jB-)
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